The globalizing connections that defined the European Bronze Age in the second
millennium BC either ended or abruptly changed in the decades around 1200 BC. The …

This article focuses on hunter-gatherer impact on interglacial vegetation in Europe, using a
case study from the Early Holocene (9200–8700 BP). We present a novel agent-based …

Situated at the disciplinary boundary between prehistory and history, this book presents a
new synthesis of Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Greece, from the rise and fall of …

Archaeology is often argued to provide a unique long-term perspective on humans that can
be utilised for effective policy-making, for example, in discussions of resilience and …

As the world faces multiple crises, lessons from humanity's past can potentially suggest
ways to decrease disruptions and increase societal resilience. From 1200 to 1100 BCE …

What impact did the Roman Climate Optimum (RCO) and the Late Antique Little Ice Age
(LALIA) have on the rise and fall of the Roman Empire? Our article presents an agent-based …

In this chapter we apply the concepts of resilience theory and systemic risk to the Bronze
Age Collapse. We contend that this was a case of synchronous failures driven by both long …

Human-environment dynamics in past societies has been a major field of research in the
Mediterranean for a long time, but has grown significantly following the increase in the …

Abstract In this chapter Michael Gehler, Robert Rollinger, and Philipp Strobl provide a
comprehensive introduction into the topic of the volume. They present an overview on recent …

Retrieving well-dated terrestrial archives of Holocene climate change is fundamentally
important for building robust climate models and predictions. In this study we obtained …